Diagnosing ‘Political Gender Confusion Syndrome’

Published: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 08:00 AM.

By MICHAEL SMITH

PANAMA CITY BEACH I have to chuckle when Democrats who claim to have been registered as “Republican” wake up and discover that the Republican Party has become so “extreme,” that we have become the very antithesis of America and just want to destroy the country and defeat President Obama just because he is black. Racists! Bigots! H8ers! OMG!

It seems that these “surprised” and “shocked” supposed “Republicans” are coming out of the woodwork to support the Democrats and Obama. Such was a recent letter to the editor from a “perplexed” registered “Republican” from Vernon (“GOP extremism, obstructionism ruin party,” Sept. 14).

Where to begin?

The author is clearly a victim of PGCS — Political Gender Confusion Syndrome. This has become so rampant over such a short period of time that the Centers for Disease Control has declared it a pandemic and the American Psychiatric Association is about to officially list this as a treatable disease in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I think Obamacare has a program for it — better hurry and apply for treatment before the Republicans repeal it.

The letter from the “Republican” contained these Democrat characteristics:

● Government-run health care and Keynesian economics — check. I guess I missed that big universal health care program that Bush was about to pass. I do recall a 20-year-old Heritage Foundation paper that supporters of Obamacare interpreted as support for an individual mandatee, but since the person who wrote the paper helped file the amicus brief opposing Obamacare, I would say that this part of the letter is a little exercise in Democrat fantasy and false history. One would have thought that since Democrats controlled Congress for the last two years of the Bush administration, he would have had little trouble getting a sweeping health care bill passed — if there had been such a bill.

PANAMA CITY BEACH
I have to chuckle when Democrats who claim to have been registered as “Republican” wake up and discover that the Republican Party has become so “extreme,” that we have become the very antithesis of America and just want to destroy the country and defeat President Obama just because he is black. Racists! Bigots! H8ers! OMG!

It seems that these “surprised” and “shocked” supposed “Republicans” are coming out of the woodwork to support the Democrats and Obama. Such was a recent letter to the editor from a “perplexed” registered “Republican” from Vernon (“GOP extremism, obstructionism ruin party,” Sept. 14).

Where to begin?

The author is clearly a victim of PGCS — Political Gender Confusion Syndrome. This has become so rampant over such a short period of time that the Centers for Disease Control has declared it a pandemic and the American Psychiatric Association is about to officially list this as a treatable disease in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I think Obamacare has a program for it — better hurry and apply for treatment before the Republicans repeal it.

The letter from the “Republican” contained these Democrat characteristics:

● Government-run health care and Keynesian economics — check. I guess I missed that big universal health care program that Bush was about to pass. I do recall a 20-year-old Heritage Foundation paper that supporters of Obamacare interpreted as support for an individual mandatee, but since the person who wrote the paper helped file the amicus brief opposing Obamacare, I would say that this part of the letter is a little exercise in Democrat fantasy and false history. One would have thought that since Democrats controlled Congress for the last two years of the Bush administration, he would have had little trouble getting a sweeping health care bill passed — if there had been such a bill.

● The Iraq War caused the deficits and debt (military spending is the problem, even though entitlement and debt service spending dwarfs military spending) — check.

● Republicans are cutting Social Security (even though they aren’t — not even Paul Ryan’s budget plan cuts Social Security) — check.

● Republicans stopping the statist policies of the Democrats are “obstructionist” — check.

● Support for abortion — check.

● Republicans are forcing religion on people (even though that is a feature of the Democrat’s pet religion –Islam) – check.

● Rick Scott is a Republican and turned down all the federal money that would be wasted on a high-speed rail project that would cost Florida billions more to operate than the money that would be received from the federal government and that makes him bad — check.

● The Obama stimulus worked and created jobs (even though it didn’t and we have 43 straight months of unemployment over 8 percent) — check.

The author may have registered as a Republican, but according to the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM guidelines, he hasn’t been one at least not since Reagan … well, actually, maybe never. There was once a group of “Nelson Rockefeller Republicans” but they were not really Republicans at all, they were just “progressives” in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt. They were also wrongly registered as Republicans. Sound familiar?

To make these “Republicans” feel better, a proper identification of the ailment is possible. They are “progressives.” These “Republicans” require political gender reassignment surgery immediately (also covered by Obamacare). This surgery removes the spine, any nagging morality and any gender-specific parts to allow admission to the political organization that best fits this new configuration, the Democratic Party.

“Progressives” are neo-Marxists and infest both parties. Thankfully, they are a minority in the Republican Party, but they are the vast majority in the Democratic Party.

Perhaps rather than bemoaning how they woke up one morning and found that the Republican Party has suddenly become just sooooo extreme, when in reality it has not changed in its mission for freedom, free enterprise and smaller government since William F. Buckley wrote “God and Man at Yale” in 1951, they should really wake up, smell the patchouli oil and join the party that actually espouses their views. Maybe then they can end their confusion and stop writing letters to the editor espousing Democratic positions while claiming that they are/were a Republican.